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| 176002 | 2003-09-17 11:02:00 | I have just purchased a Western Digital Caviar 40GB 7200rpm hard drive. I want to install this as a slave drive to my existing Quantum Fireball lct10 20GB Hard Drive. Having installed the WD drive I want to partition it into two with 20GB allocated as a back-up drive to my Quantum Master drive and 20GB allocated for use with Linux. I would really appreciate advice about how to do this correctly. So far the WD is mounted in the hard drive bay and the jumper blocks have been set at master for the Quantum and slave for the WD. My operating system is Win98SE running on a 600MHz Pentium III platform. I look forward to some great advice. Regards Bolligrew |
bolligrew (4581) | ||
| 176003 | 2003-09-17 11:11:00 | Suggest you create for Linux: 1. / partition for the OS - depends on how much you are going to install (RH9 is 4.8G for a full install of all OS files and applications). 2. Swap partition of 2x RAM size. 3. /home (good to have your data files on a different partition like d: in MS Windows) 4. Can make a /boot directory of about 100M John |
JohnD (509) | ||
| 176004 | 2003-09-17 11:15:00 | Personally, I would use the newer 40GB as the main HDD split up as you say into 20/20 in a multi-boot arrangement (W98, Linux) as master on the first IDE channel, move all data from the old and use the latter as the backup drive. I assume that you have a CDRom which I believe ought to be the master on the second IDE channel so your old hdd would then be set to slave on that channel. Of course others may or may not agree with me. There are also a few FAQs on this site on setting this up. All the best Tom |
Tom McB (832) | ||
| 176005 | 2003-09-18 08:02:00 | Assuming you want to proceed as you outlined (although the alternative HDD suggestion is worth considering too though). I'm presuming that your system has detected the new drive okay. If not you'll want to recheck your jumper settings, confirm the correct IDE cables are connected to each drive and a power connector is plugged into each drive. Once system has identified new drive as slave -- you'll see that on boot up and can recheck via My Computer you're ready to install Linux. Depending on what Linux distribution you're installing (eg: Mandrake, Red Hat) you should be able to partition the new drive as a part of the Linux installation process by selecting the "resize windows partition" (or words to that effect). Really need a bit more detail re: your intentions to provide more specific advice. Hope that helps. |
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